Of course, homophobes wouldn’t let Lil Nas X become a music superstar without panicking about his impact on impressionable young minds.
But if you are one of those parents who are mistaken enough to believe that a gay rapper could “turn” your child into gay, please read and seriously think about this tweet.
“If watching the Lil Nas X video makes your gay, just show them ‘WAP’ and switch them back … you know … because that’s obviously how it all works,” L wrote. Twitter user Ryan Shores, before signing off with a strong choice of words, with a screenshot of the gay_irl Tumblr account.
(Tumblr user incompetentmedic also had a funny response, writing, “Instructions are not clear – my child is now bisexual.)
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Here are more tweets about the Nas X inspired panic of parents.
I asked my kid if he had seen the Lil Nas X video. He said “Yeah. Dude. He’s not shy at all” LMAO. I said, “They’ll say that makes kids gay.” He said: “Sexuality is not a mother of choice, with that logic we are straight because of the media we consume.”
– emilio (@FriendlyTampon) March 27, 2021
I wouldn’t worry about the Lil Nas X music video making kids gay. For six months as a kid, I practically saw Holly Valance’s gyrating vulva every Saturday morning and was still extremely gay. ??
– Mitch Feltscheer (@mitchfel) April 1, 2021
If the media can influence your child’s sex life like little Nas X making kids gay, then I blame all of my failing relationships because I watched American Dad every night before I went to bed. Stan and Francine almost divorced like 3 times per episode.
– Jonathan RR Connford esq. (@HeelJackConner) April 1, 2021
Broken: Lil Nas X Makes Kids Gay
awakened: ed sheeran makes the kids red
– pepijn? (@mushroomawsten) March 28, 2021
Related: Lil Nas X Drops Up New Song, Returns To High School In Emotional Video
Rompers writer Lane Moore, meanwhile, wrote a great response to “very worried parents” who are concerned their kids are consuming the clips of Lil Nas X.
The point is, if you are really worried that your children will suddenly become something other than who they really are, due to the influence of the media, I would ask you to acknowledge that they already are. So many queer people I know, myself included, have never fully seen themselves in the media, and even now very rarely, although the progress has been wonderful. The only thing the increased visibility of queer performers like Lil Nas X will do is show your child that if he’s queer, it’s beautiful and it’s okay.
And to artist born Montero Hill, we say, keep doing you!
